{"id":8,"date":"2008-02-02T23:06:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T05:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-02-03T00:59:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T06:59:55","slug":"zeidwig-and-the-rso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"ZeidwiG and the RSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeidwig.com\/zeidwig-bio.htm\" title=\"ZeidwiG's Bio\">ZeidwiG<\/a> on PBS. He is a piano comedian. He is\u00c2\u00a0very funny and\u00c2\u00a0a very good concert pianist. Apparently\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0he\u00c2\u00a0knows\u00c2\u00a0how to promote himself. He posts his own videos and answers comments promptly on\u00c2\u00a0YouTube.\u00c2\u00a0Take a look at\u00c2\u00a0this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j9Algm8eQ7Q\" title=\"ZeidwiG in action\">YouTube video<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My wife and I are season ticket holders for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonsymphony.org\/\" title=\"Richardson Symphony Orchestra\">Richardson Symphony Orchestra <\/a>(RSO). It is one the hidden treasures of the Dallas\/Fort Worth Metroplex.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0ZeidwiG&#8217;s video is impressive, but watching it live is absolutely amazing.\u00c2\u00a0He was at the Eisenman Center this evening and gave essentially the same performance &#8212; all of the gags in the video (but funnier because the video misses some setups) and the serious concert performance.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0ZeidwiG is also a composer. He recently completed a piece called &#8220;Birth&#8221; in honor of his wife who gave\u00c2\u00a0birth\u00c2\u00a0to twins (he actually now has four children). It was performed publicly for the first time tonight by the RSO and was a very nice piece.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever get a chance,\u00c2\u00a0see this\u00c2\u00a0guy in person or look for him on PBS. He is having way too much fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen\u00c2\u00a0ZeidwiG on PBS. He is a piano comedian. He is\u00c2\u00a0very funny and\u00c2\u00a0a very good concert pianist. Apparently\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0he\u00c2\u00a0knows\u00c2\u00a0how to promote himself. He posts his own videos and answers comments promptly on\u00c2\u00a0YouTube.\u00c2\u00a0Take a look at\u00c2\u00a0this YouTube video.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,22],"tags":[36,24,25,27,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}